Honeymoon Part 2: Universal Island of Adventure

Honeymoon Matt
We already posted our honeymoon but what we didn't include were the photos from our time at Orlando's Universal Studios and Island of Adventure. Matt and I sat through a timeshare presentation to get 3-day passes to the theme parks and enjoyed a few days there. We chose Universal Studios over DisneyWorld because Matt had never been to any Universal Studios.

Universal Studios

Island of Adventure

Carrying the weight of the world on my back

I've got the whole world in my hands...


Playing in the gift store

Sponge Bob Square Matt 

Just chillin with Jaws

Photo bombed by the shark

Cuz I'm bad like that

Matt and his funny faces entertaining me while waiting in line

And then doing some info-gathering  
Posing at the Simpsons Ride


The Lego people


Matt and I loved walking around seeing all these people gnawing on big turkey legs in the Florida heat

The real Jaws not so scary

Trying to take my mind off the heat

Look Mom, no hands!

About to enter Jurassic Park...


Matt showing that he is not afraid of what lies ahead

Just fighting off dinosaurs

Somehow I became a dinosaur

Help me!

I've always wanted to be character in a Dr. Seuss book


We represent the lollipop kids

Thing 1 and Thing 2

Thing 3

One night we stopped in the Universal Studios Riverwalk and had dinner at Bubba Gumps

"I know what love is"
The paddle is how you let the server you need help. Look at how sweaty Matt was - good old Florida humidity.
We also stopped in at this place in the Riverwalk where you could do karaoke with a live band and backup singers, which would have been amazing but I think we were both too hot, tired, and grumpy to actually do it. So we left after about 15 minutes.
We also saw the movie "Up" in 3D
For a couple days, we left Orlanda and headed down to the Tampa Bay/Clearwater area. We stayed in some dirty motel that we hadn't booked until we got there. But we got to spend the day at Honeymoon Island Beach, which was voted one of the best beaches in the U.S. It did not disappoint, though Matt got fried from not putting on sunblock. 

Honeymoon Beach


Clearwater, Florida
While there, we also got to see a pretty amazing firework show at night. 



As I look back at these photos now, I'm amazed at how many photos we took. But I remember we bought a little video camera just for the trip which we were excited about at the time.

No comments:

Post a Comment